Posted on 04/01/2021 5:12:28 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Seventy-four years ago, in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Major League Baseball’s first African American player in the modern era: Jackie Roosevelt Robinson. This historic moment is celebrated as the formal “integration” of Major League Baseball (MLB). For three decades after Robinson broke the “color line,” there was a steady increase in American-born Black players taking the field. But this year, on opening day, 2021, just 7% of players on MLB rosters are American-born Black athletes.
What has happened to the Black American baseball player?
---snip--- At the heart of the matter is money. MLB invests tremendous financial resources into building the human, social, and cultural capital of players born outside the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America that it does not invest in low-income Black (and white) players in the United States
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Basically, baseball is a kid’s game. A back yard in a neighborhood can serve for elementary school kids to play baseball and as they move from 2nd grade to 4th grade they can switch to softball. With no yards of their own, and lots of inner city pavement, the kids will play basketball. It is just simply a case of housing patterns. How many kids in Texas learn how to ice skate on frozen lakes? And then play ice hockey on frozen ponds?
Why no article from big media asking what has happened to the White American basketball player?
They make more money in Basketball.
Lack of skills. Got to perform in MLB. No affirmative action there.
Q: What is black, has 18 legs and catches flies?
A: The Los Angeles Dodgers
The left preach “equality”...OK, let’s give ‘em “equality” in professional sports....
60% White players/coaches
13% Black players/coaches
18% Hispanic players/coaches
6% Asian players/coaches
With the immigration floodgates opened illegally by the leftists blacks are going to become even more of a minority in America than before.
Basketball is a little redundant to watch as a fan but the players are constantly in motion having to run, jump, dribble, pass, shoot and defend. Black players are generally a little more physically gifted for the game. Hockey is more a geographical factor with players from colder climates who excel on ice and they happen to be mostly white. It is what is and its neither good, bad nor racist.
Black young men prefer the greater action of basketball to the briefer actions of baseball.
Why are there so few non-blacks in the NBA & NFL ?
not cool anymore, acting White or some such, nothing more.
Who cares?
Baseball is largely represented by Latino cultures, particularly the Caribbean. You can’t change that by some government pogrom, just like you can’t change the makeup of the NBA.
Let it be what it is.
Black men are almost exactly 7% of the US population.
Professional sports - at least at the player level - are the last true meritocracies. If that changes, there will be no more professional sports. There are exactly as many blacks in MLB as deserve to be in MLB based on their skills. That said, I’m done with MLB and all other professional sports.
One admirable player of the past was A.J. Green of the LA Lakers. Humble, christian believer dude who wasn’t an arrogant thug. Same for the late Hank Aaron of the ATL Braves in MLB.
There are a ton of black players in the major leagues. They are called “Dominicans.” Love how for these morons if you are from a Spanish-speaking country you can’t be black.
So, water polo is out.
Because the other sports are considered “cooler” in the modern community. More flash and bigger bucks.
I’ve seen black men who are former baseball players and they swear that baseball has the better package (retirement and post 9-man career). Whether you become a scout, coach, or elsewhere in a franchise or the League.
I think they said on average the salaries are higher in MLB than the NFL or NBA but I don’t recall and that was probably around 5 years ago I heard them talking at a sportswriters dinner.
you can learn bball by yourself or playing any combo of 2 on 2, etc.
most urban areas have plenty of basketball courts. always guys to play with.
baseball not so much.
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